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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Experience.
(c) Language.
(d) Feeling.

2. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Get rid of them.
(b) Learn to express them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Adapt to them.

3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A literary device.
(b) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A metaphor.

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Low state.
(b) Blank slate.
(c) Nothing state.
(d) Zero state.

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Sin.
(b) Evil.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Narcissism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

2. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

3. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

4. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

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